Newlab公司的密歇根中央分部/ Civilian工作室
Newlab at Michigan Central / Civilian Projects

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概述：总部位于纽约的Civilian工作室受托担任Newlab公司的建筑设计顾问，监督其位于Michigan Central的办公大楼室内设计，办公空间位于书库大楼内，这里是底特律建筑师Albert Kahn于1936年设计的装饰派艺术地标。

Overview. New York-based studio Civilian has acted as an architectural design consultant and overseen the interior design for Newlab at Michigan Central, housed in The Book Depository building, an Art Deco landmark designed by the Detroit-based architect Albert Kahn in 1936.





在Michigan Central当地和Newlab公司的要求下，Civilian工作室将该建筑改造成最先进的创新中心，容纳数百名企业家和发明家，针对当前交通和社会的紧迫问题，共同开发新的可持续、平等解决方案。2023年春季开放后，位于Michigan Central的Newlab公司就成为了整个城乡重建计划的第一个主要阶段，将在底特律密歇根中央火车站周围形成一个新的移动出行创新区。作为Newlab公司的长期合作者，Civilian工作室的 Nicko Elliott曾负责监督Newlab公司在纽约布鲁克林海军造船厂和华盛顿街77号分部的室内设计。

Operated by Michigan Central and Newlab, Civilian has transformed the building into a state-of-the-art innovation hub to house hundreds of entrepreneurs and inventors focused on the development of new sustainable and equitable solutions to the most pressing challenges at the intersection of mobility and society. When it opens in spring 2023, Newlab at Michigan Central will become the first major piece of a larger civic and urban redevelopment plan and overall vision to create a new mobility innovation district around Detroit’s Michigan Central Train Station. A longstanding collaborator of Newlab, Civilian Nicko Elliott oversaw the interiors of Newlab’s first New York space in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and at 77 Washington Street.





灵感：在面对这一雄心勃勃的适应性再利用项目时，Civilian工作室与Kahn在当地的现代主义建筑遗产进行了对话。工作室给出的设计语言，一方面向建筑的历史致敬，同时让这座办公大楼内所有工程师、设计师和企业家所做的开创性工作清晰可见。Civilian工作室希望创造出的环境能突出Kahn的影响力，致敬他塑造现代世界面貌的重大贡献。

Inspiration. In approaching the ambitious adaptive reuse project, Civilian worked in dialogue with Kahn’s architecture and the corporate modernist design heritage of the region. The studio has developed a design language that pays homage to the building’s history while making legible the groundbreaking work done by the engineers, designers, and entrepreneurs that will occupy its collaborative workspaces. Civilian aimed to create an environment that highlights Kahn’s influence in the region as well as his foundational role in shaping the look of the modern world.



20世纪初，Kahn的福特工厂建筑在国际上公布，合理的比例结构、简单装饰、直接的材料表达和巨大窗户对欧洲先锋派产生了深远影响。在书库大楼建设之时，正是Kahn的设计影响力在国际上最有力的时期，从与包豪斯合作的展览，到与Charlotte Perriand等设计师合作的作品，足可见其声名远扬。

In the early twentieth century, Albert Kahn's Ford factory buildings were widely published internationally and were profoundly influential on the European avant-garde, who were taken by the rationally proportioned structure, lack of ornamentation, straightforward material expression, and oversized expanses of windows. At the time of The Book Depository's construction, Kahn's design influence was widely evident internationally, from exhibitions associated with the Bauhaus to the work of designers like Charlotte Perriand.





设计方案：Civilian工作室曾与建筑公司Gensler合作，Gensler担任备案建筑师，负责对废弃已久的书库大楼进行细致的建筑修复。这座27万平方英尺的三层建筑最初被设计成邮件分拣站，后来成为底特律公立学校的图书储藏室。其精致的砖砌外墙、厚重的混凝土内部和马提尼杯子形态的刚性网格，为室内空间和材料的使用提供了关键信息。在整个项目中，Civilian工作室努力在生产空间与舒适办公空间中创造意想不到的功能邻接和视觉联系，以促进合作和联系。

Design Scheme. Civilian has worked with architecture firm Gensler, who acted as Architect of Record and oversaw the meticulous core-and-shell renovation of the long-abandoned Book Depository building. The 270,000 sq ft, three-story structure, originally designed as a mail sorting station, later became book storage for Detroit’s public schools. Its delicately detailed brick façade, heavily patinated concrete interior, and rigid grid of martini cap columns have informed the spatial and material sensibility of the interiors. Throughout the project, Civilian strove to create unexpected programmatic adjacencies and visual connections between production spaces and work and amenity spaces to foster collaboration and connection.



进入大楼后，迎接人们的是一个预制红木和压制不锈钢接待台，设在马提尼杯状玻璃柱周围。通过三扇12英寸不锈钢和罗纹玻璃门进入毗邻的等候区，可以俯瞰整个2000平方英尺的展览空间，这里将专注于密歇根州下一代的移动出行创新。内部空间布局与原有建筑隔开，形成一个“多孔”区域，与相邻的办公空间和基础建筑形成视觉连接，同时向外展示Newlab社区的内部活动。

Upon entering the facility one is greeted by a prefabricated rosewood and pressed stainless steel reception desk which is installed around a martini-glass column. The adjoining waiting area overlooks a 2,000 sq ft exhibition space, entered through a gate of three 12' stainless steel and ribbed glass doors, which will focus on the next generation of mobility innovation in Michigan. The planes making up the interior space are held off the existing architecture creating a literally porous space with a visual connection to adjacent program spaces and base building while telegraphing outward the work taking place within the Newlab community.



项目的核心是一处容纳200个座位的活动空间，可以俯瞰这个11000平方英尺的场地中最新机器人和原型制作仪器。进入四扇20x 15的电梯门，为当地社区进行动态编程的活动空间就转变为讲故事的教育空间。连接原型制作仪器和展览空间的是两个开放式工作室，里面容纳了办公桌、休息室、会议室和教室。

At the heart of the project lies a 200-seat event space overlooking a state-of-the-art 11,000 sq ft robotics and prototyping facility. By opening the four 20' x 15' lift doors - which were maximally scaled to fit between the columns - the event space transforms into a porous storytelling and education space through dynamic programming for the local community at large. Linking the prototyping facility and the exhibition space are two open studio spaces with desking, lounge spaces, meeting and conference rooms, and classrooms.



往楼上走，Civilian工作室在新增的双层中庭空间里打造了一个全年开放的室内树蕨公园，配备休息室和工作台。二楼包含额外的开放式工作室、封闭式私人工作室和休憩空间。三楼同样包含上述设施。书库大楼的地下层通过隧道与密歇根中央校区相连，这里也是专用的车库工作室空间，配备开放式工作室和休息室。

One floor up, Civilian created a year-round interior tree-fern park with lounge seating and worktables in the new double-height atrium space. The 2nd floor contains additional open studio and amenity spaces along with closed private studios. The third floor similarly contains a mix of private and open studio spaces along with a private lounge. The basement of the building is connected to the Michigan Central campus by a tunnel and provides dedicated garage studio spaces, along with open studios and lounges.



家具：Civilian工作室在项目中使用的都是美国经典品牌MillerKnoll，精心挑选这个密歇根州家具品牌的翻新复古家具系列，并委托其制作生产。

Furniture. Throughout the project, Civilian combined American design classics from Michigan-based furniture brand MillerKnoll with a carefully considered selection of refinished vintage furniture, and commissioned contemporary pieces.



作为建筑干预和家具方案的补充，Civilian工作室为该项目专门设计了一系列定制的桌子和储物柜。坚固的固态灰和层压板在很大程度上借鉴了20世纪30年代家具设计师的作品，当时这批设计师都是迷恋规模生产的福特主义者，自那时起，机器加工饰面、层压板和天然材料组合的使用极大影响了现代主义的设计语汇。

Complementing the architectural approach and furniture selection concept, Civilian designed a series of bespoke tables and storage cabinets, especially for the project. The robust solid ash and laminate pieces draw heavily from the work of 1930s furniture designers whose fascination with Fordist mass production and interest in the combination of machined finishes, laminates, and natural materials influenced the design vocabulary of the modern world since.











建筑事务所：Civilian Projects
类型：办公
项目面积：约25,080㎡（270000 ft²）
项目年份：2023
图片来源：Brian W. Ferry
备案建筑师：Gensler
景观设计：Planterra Interior Landscaping
室内设计备案建筑师：Ghafari
家具采购：Marx Moda
家具制造商：Ganas
中古家具：Morentz Gallery
建筑装饰木制品：MOD Interiors
Newlab业主代表：DBI Projects
总承包商：Dixon Barton Mallow
项目所在地区：底特律
项目所在国家：美国

OFFICE BUILDINGS, OFFICES INTERIORS
DETROIT, UNITED STATES
Architects: Civilian Projects
Area: 270000 ft²
Year: 2023
Photographs:Brian W. Ferry
Architect of Record: Gensler
Landscape Design: Planterra Interior Landscaping
Interior Architect Of Record: Ghafari
Theater Consultant: Jeff Sugg
Furniture Procurement: Marx Moda
Furniture Fabricator: Ganas
Vintage Furniture: Morentz Gallery
Architectural Millwork: MOD Interiors
Newlab Owners Rep: DBI Projects
General Contractor : Dixon Barton Mallow
City: Detroit
Country: United States